village voice: “angry white men” by eric demby.
"the success of a handful of books that assail the bush administration as hypocritical, incompetent, and corrupt has demarcated a groundswell of americans who desire truth about their leaders amid the dearth of critical and official information that is today's mainstream media. it's a demographic large enough that any politician or pollster would identify it as pivotal in an election: 'stupid white men' by michael moore now has 500,000 copies in print and is still number five on the new york times top 10; '9-11' by noam chomsky has 205,000 in print; and 'the best democracy money can buy' by investigative journalist greg palast, published by an indie british press, just sold its paperback rights to american publisher penguin putnam for an undisclosed amount".
obviously there is hope for america and thus hope for the world.
i warmestly can recommend michael moore's book. it's fun to read and then you get hold of the wrong end of your own laughter.
it's probably more valuable than hardt and negri's "empire"... (but latter is more beautiful in the shelf, though).
immer (noch) aktuell: die goldenen regeln für schlechtes html.
hey, guess what? today i've read a little bit scripting.com again after a while.
shouldn't have done it, though. dave is in teenage mode, wants to report about a book he does not want to read because the author does not deserve the money and commands "withdraw!" to get in touch with him. oy, is this funny.
coincidentally, i took another look at an old website i did two years ago and found out that it is still the same (from a structural point of view), still maintained with radio userland which is a product by dave winer...
is scripting.com the mouthpiece of a simple software salesman?
i think if it is, there is too much talk about software salesmen, indeed.
popo.at found out that austrian chancellor schüssel has a twin brother!
btw. what about the upcoming elections in germany?
the source code of some of the 5k award entries (hypercard, how nice!) remind me of these ancient c64 hacks: lines containing strange chars and symbols and when you entered them suddenly there was hellzapoppin' rainbow colors pandemonium on the monitor (which was a telly, most of the time, btw).
no antville update until helma is working properly.
that's why it says:
"it takes three to make a thing go right, it takes three to make it out of sight."
henso-dot-come back soon, pleeease!
does peter pilz, who is member of the austrian parliament, have a weblog?
what about other mps, in germany or in the uk?
how populistic is a politician's weblog, anyway?
motzes is back and unearthed another beautiful story:
"ramac, 'random access method of accounting and control' was introduced by ibm september 13, 1956. the system used fifty metallic disks, each 1 meter in diameter [...] the storage capacity was 5 megabytes. to reach that, they had to built a device in the size of a closet. when they turned it on, the whole box was shaking like a washing machine, franklin says. engineers at that time suggested the usage of a short wire. for saftey reasons. or – to put it in a historic folkloric way – to keep it from walking out the door".
does your hard drive behave similarly?
please fasten your seat-belts.
piefke is blogging faster than the speed of light (apologies for some self-adulation):
in november 2001, i honestly was invited by the eurorancheros to submit my musical vision of what i think "holy shit" could mean.
accidentally, i came across the soundtrack of the movie "kabhi khushi kabhie gham" at that time and so i did not hesitate to include my favorite track "yeh ladka hai allah" to the holy shit-list.
some people got quite pissed with me playing the tune three times too many and too loud...
well, but just today i got a message telling me that exactly this indian blockbuster movie is going to be shown on 23 august at luna park vienna!
yeah, yeah, pretty advanced, that's what you are, punce3k...
furthermore, the event features music ranging "from desi disco across bollywood soundtracks to uk asian fusion", another hindi movie, indian food and a very beautiful atmosphere.
let's hope the weather shows some understanding.